How can I bake bread using a mother culture?
If I want to make bread using a 'mother' culture what do I need to do? How do I go about starting the 'mother'? How should I keep the 'mother' going? and how do I use the mother in my bread? What should I use to make the 'mother' for different qualities?
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There is a good blog post on the Al Dente blog that talks about getting started with a sourdough starter. They use a starter from King Arthor Flour that is supposed to be 250 years old. :)
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How do you make bread from mother dough?
Mother - this is the overall dough culture that lives in a bowl in your fridge. We take portions from it to make our ferments (Starter) for our sourdough recipes.What is a mother culture in bread making?
You can use it in any yeasted baked good. From pretzels, to pancakes, to pizza dough, you can use leftover mother. Simply replace 1/2 cup flour and 1/4 cup of the water in the recipe with your leftover mother. When your mother isn't fully active, you will keep the commercial yeast called for in the original recipe.How do you use a yeast mother?
In a Nutshell. Simply put, a sourdough mother or starter, and levain, are both preferments consisting of flour, water, naturally occurring yeast and bacteria, that require time. Each contributes its own unique flavor to your bread.A Sourdough Starter / Culture from Scratch
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The best approach is to use most of it to make a starter and feed the mother with flour and water for the next bread.
Once you have the mother, you can feed it with as much flour as you need.
Let's say you have 1 cup of mother at 100% hydration. You should use 3/4 cups of it to make a starter for the bread (add flour and water to form a starter your formula suggests). Then, feed the remaining 1/4 cup with 3/8 of both water and flour to make it 1 cup again.
Then, when your starter is active enough (it's better to rest overnight), you can make the bread the same way you do with commercial yeast. Just be sure to calculate the flour and water in the starter for baker percentages.
The numbers are symbolic, it's better to use weight and not volume for correct calculations of baker's percentages.
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